‘Farming never paid around here,’ says Pat Green, as the evening sun spreads over the barren rocks beneath his Connemara home. ‘Just look at the colour of that land! It is not great by any means. There are more rocks than soil. Even if you had a thousand acres, you wouldn’t survive farming around here!’
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